Exercise eye muscles in different ways

Eyeball movements such as up-down, right-left are believed to benefit eye health. Seen in eastern dancers perform, these movements can help the eye muscles keep healthy and thus eyeballs in place. Eye muscles are primarily engaged in positioning the eyeball and keeping it in a right place. This is the reason behind the prevalence of eye exercises among young students. Some children are even required to maintain some forms of eye exercises from an early age.

There are many people believe in the theory that keeping physical use of eye muscles can help avoid refractive visual errors including nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. These common vision defects are partially because of the eyeball’s contraction or elongation due to chronic tension in the eye muscles. By exercising the eye muscles on a regular basis, this chronic tension can be prevented. There are various ways to exercise the eye muscles.

One of the simple eye exercises is to use a pen and draw the letter E on a piece of paper. Exercisers are required to put the paper near at first and concentrate hard on the uppermost bar, and then the lowest bar and finally the center bar. After that, place the paper a few feet away and repeat such a process until the E on the paper is invisible.

Another simple eye exercise is outstretching a hand and wiggling its fingers. The exercisers should try to note the movements of the fingers. The distance between the eyes and the fingers can be simply adjusted according to personal visual conditions. This easy exercise can help maintain or improve peripheral vision through stimulating the cells in the eyes.

A third eye exercise requires much imagination in exercisers. They can just think there is a pencil attached to the nose. Close the eyes and portrait a circle in the mind. The second step is to contract the pictured circle into an oval and draw the figure 8 around the oval.